Over four nights last week, Hector Zamora's video White Noise was projected onto a building on Auckland's waterfront as part of Move Towards the Light, a series of video and laser projections and light sculptures forming an after-dark art trail from Brittomart to the Wynyard Quarter.
Commissioned for the visual arts programme of the 2011 Auckland Arts Festival, White Noise documents a site-specific installation at Bethell's Beach on the West Coast of Auckland. Zamora invited the public to plant 500 white flags along the coast, creating a poetic 'white noise' in unison with the wind. At some point in the day the installation was politicised with the planting of a single Maori Flag by a local activist, highlighting continuing debates on the ownership of New Zealand's foreshore and seabed - an intervention that was welcomed by the artist.
Image: Hector Zamora's White Noise in Move Towards the Light on Auckland's waterfront
